Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-05
a RUMOR DENIED.
Victoria Opposed to the Marriage of
Prince Albert TO an American Girl.
IN. Y. Town Topics

IN. Y. Town Topics
l have received the following letter,
which / gladly publish:
SANDEtSGHAM HALL KINGS LYNN. NOR
FoLK-To Tie Editor ~ To,rn Topics Neic
York, u 5. A SIR: His Royal Highness the
Prince OF Wales has received a message from
the Br t.sh Minister at Washington stating
that the engagement of his Royal Highness
Prince Alt ert Victor to an American lady has
been announced In TOun ToOict. am de-
sired by his Royal Highncss to inform YOU
that the report is not correct anl TO request
that you will publ sh a denial OF IL in your
paper.
In requesting this. his Royal Highncss does
not wish Z To be supposed that he IL casting
any reflection upon American womanhood.
His Royal Highness has had the pleasure of
meeting many OF the fair citizons Of the
Great Republic during the last few years.
Thanks to that entire freedom from restraint
which charnctorizcs your countryw women,
comparatively short ncquaintances with
them have enabled his Royal Highncss TO
gain "A good insight into the virtues OF Amer
team ladies. Ills late trip to the continent. on
which he was attended by a bovy OF Amer
lean ladies, has increased his respect for
them.
Unfortunately. by the Royal Marriage act,
which was passed In the reign of his Royal
Hlghnoss' lanented Ereatgrandfather,
George ILL.,, none OF the descendants OF his
late Majesty George H., unless OF foreign
birth, can marry under the age OF twenty-five
without tho consent OF the Sovereign How
ever willing his Royal Highhess might be to
accept an American daughter-in.law. the com
sent or her Majesty the Queen must first he
obtained to'any marriage OF members OF the
royal family under the age or twenty-five.
Her Majesty IL not believed to be I'm favor OF
Prince Albert Victor marrying an American.
I al ..,N...
FRANCIS KNoLLYs.
Willingly publish tais letter from Sir
Francis Knollys. The Royal Marriage act
TO which he alludes was passed because
George Ills sous, failing to appreciate
the fat German PrinceSsss offered to them
as wives, married pretty English women in
stead Before the German element was
introduced into tho reignins family OF
England, alliances between royalties and
subjects we're not considered mesallinncss
james II. married Lord Ca vendish's daugh-
ter. Their two daughters were both Queens
OF England. Four out of Henry Wills six
wives were subjects. The children OF two
succeeded to the throne. Edward ". mar
ried a subject and Queen Victoria herself
is descended from Catharine SwynfUrd,
who was the wifo of John of Gaunt
Tho Queen has not besn very Consistent
in regard to morganatic marriages. She re-
fused her consent to tho marriage OF her
cousin, Princess Mary of Cambridge, to
I Lori Hood. She allowed her u marry the
DuSo of Teck, who is tho issue OF NOR
| RGnatic marriage, aud yet sh, refused TO
/ recognize the IL E4tos, who were tho lsgit
mate children of tho Duke OF Sussex aud
the Duchess of Inverness After the Prince
| ConsOrt's death the Queen got mania
| for morganatic marriages. Princess Louise,
Princess Frederika of Hanover, Princess
Louise Of Battonbcrg, and now Princes
! Beatrice have ali made marriages which in
| German courts would preclude the posi-
bilitY OF Their being received. The Queen
was very anxious that Prince Leopold
should marry Miss Barring, the great heir
ess, now lady William Compton, but the
young lady objected to being tied to a sick
| husband.
IL was vol known in London some years
ago that one of the two fair New York sis
ters who startel the American mania
there did aspire to Prince Leopold's hand.
What ENCOURAGEMENT she received do not
know. AS her fortune turned. cut to DO
| nothing like what it had beeh reported to-
DO, she was probably snubbsd
That tho engagement of Prince eddie"
to on American girl has been on the tapis
Sir Francis Knollys does not deny. That
theyoung man has been much attracted by
the beauty Of one is certain. He will only
have to wait until he is twenty-five to en-
able him to kick over the grand maternal
traces Then, il Parliament does not in
terfcre, and the tidal wave of democracy
in England will have increased so much
in force, although l do not think it WILL
England's proud aristocracy will have to
bend the knee to an American Queen. The
question Is; Who /. shei